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Three robbers Kwadjo Kwarteng 25,(driver),Akwasi Achampong 35,(steal bender) and Kofi Agyemang 39 ( unemployed) believed to have come from Goaso with a Nissan taxi cub with registration number AW 4952- 12 have been arrested by some good Samaritans around the roundabout for stealing GH¢ 10.000 Hundred Million old cedies belonging to one Naomi Boateng from Tano Odumasi in the Atwima Mponua district of Ashanti region.

Speaking to media, the victim Naomi Boateng explained that she sold her car to settle the admission fee of her son who has gained admission to Tarkwah School of mines and have decided to enter into a business venture with the remaining GH¢ 10,000 Hundred Million only to be attacked and nearly made away with the money after she withdrew it from her account at Atwima Mponua Rural Bank in Bibiani.

The Bono East Regional immigration service department has arrested about 25 Nigerian girls suspected to be engaging in prostitution.

In an interview with the Regional commander for immigration service department in Bono East Region, Chief supretendent Enoch Annor Abrokwa he explained that after the tour of Bono East Regional Minister Hon. Kofi Amoakohene, the immigration service decided to do a clean up exercise within the region which they started from Nkoranza south and kintampo south.
During this exercise, they arrested Nigerian girls engaging in such unlawful acts.

Chief superintendent Enoch added that,these Nigerian girls do not have any form of identification cards such as voters ID card, passport ect. So the immigration service is putting things together to send them back to Nigeria

CUE IN

He finally sent a strong warning to foreigners in Bono East Region who do not have appropriate documents to start thinking of packing themselves out because the immigration service will soon come after them.

Asante Akyem Akyem wenchi is a town near Bompata where four people has been shocked with electric wire leading two dead and others in serious condition.
The incident happened that , there is a funeral ceremony at wenchi presby so due to the crowd over they were trying to fine more canopies for sympathizers ,so they take the canopy from presby church to durbar ground, unfortunately it hits the electric wire leading two dead and two in serious condition

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The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has directed banks and other specialised
deposit-taking institutions to ensure that people who deposit money into
and/or withdraw same from accounts that are not theirs provide their
“full personal details” to the transacting institution.

In a notice published in the Wednesday edition of the Daily Graphic,
the central bank said such persons must provide their “name and address,
a verifiable identification card and a telephone number to the
requisite bank or specialized deposit-taking institution.”

It said the directive was in compliance with the section 23 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2008 (Act 749), as amended.

The Act seeks to shine transparency on persons engaging in financial transactions in a bid to stem money laundering.

The notice was signed by the Secretary of BoG, Frances Van-Hein Sackey.

It said “in accordance with section 23(7) of the Anti-Money Laundering
Act 2008, (Act 749) as amended, all banks and specialised deposit-taking
institutions shall require the full personal details of a person who
makes a deposit into or withdrawal from an account on behalf of another
person.

“Banks and specialised deposit-taking institutions and the general public are to take note and be guided accordingly,” it said.

Graphic Online understands that some of the banks and specialised
deposit-taking institutions were complying with the directive prior to
the September 4 notice.

Huawei Ghana launched its inaugural IP Club in Accra, bringing together
private and public sector IT experts for exchange of ideas and
development of IP industry in the country.

The platform is the first of its kind in Ghana signifying another step
forward towards transforming the country into an information-rich and
knowledge-based society and economy.

Announcing the launch at Huawei Ghana’s first IP GALA in Accra, Chen
Zhijun, Vice President of Huawei Southern Africa Region stated, digital
transformation is sweeping across the world and Huawei is firmly
committed to innovation and local talent fostering by creating an open,
healthy and sustainable ecosystem where every stakeholder can contribute
and benefit from.”

He added Chen Zhijun added that in the coming days more technology and
resources will be allocated to the Ghana market to facilitate new
technologies adoption and increase supply of advanced intelligent IP
network solutions and differentiated innovative products.

He asserted that it will strengthen the cultivation of talents and upskilling of ICT practitioners in the IP Club.

The event with its theme: “RETHINK IP FOR A DIGITAL ECONOMY”, was
attended by Deputy Minister of Communications of Ghana, Hon. George
Andah and over 200 representatives from Mobile Network Operators
(Telcos) and IT enterprise for in-depth exchange of ideas over topics
including challenges in digital transformation, industry standards
formulation and public-private sector collaboration.

In his welcome address, the Deputy Minister of Communications said: “the
IP Club is timely intervention which will help ICT professionals in
Ghana compete on the global stage.” He noted that the initiative is in
line with the digitization strategies of many countries including Ghana
as it helps cultivate a pool of ICT professionals that are crucial to
industry development, thus boosting ICT industry growth, driving the
development of different sectors, and contributing to lower unemployment
rates over the long term.”

As one of the core leaders in the IP network field, Huawei aims to meet
customers’ requirements for digital transformation and intelligent
networks. In the mainstream scenarios such as enterprise campus, data
center, WAN, WLAN, and network security, Huawei launches the four-engine
brand strategies of CloudEngineer switches, NetEngine routers, and
AirEngineer WiFi 6 AP, HiSecEngine security gateways, while leading in
key technologies and business processes, it also makes outstanding
contributions to the industry.

Huawei is a global leader in technology and IP. The company has
contributed to the development of the frontiers of technology on the
global level. It sits on more than 40 technology working groups.

Additionally, Huawei contributes to more than 12 industry standards and
open source organisations. It participates in about 80% of SRv6
standards formulation. Huawei drafts more than 240 technical proposals
on WiFi 6, making it the highest ranking company in the industry.

Huawei builds interactive end-to-end products and its Huawei AirEngine,
the industry’s first commercial Wi-Fi 6 product won the 2019 Gold Media
Award at the InterOp Tokyo Exhibition in Japan. Huawei combined
efficiency with non-existent innovation to produce an ultra-large
bandwith, ultra-high capacity and ultra-low latency product. The product
is also an Internet-of-Things (IoT) flexible.

In Ghana, more than 300 people from over 15 local companies has
benefited from technological upskilling in ICT training center in Accra
established by HUAWEI Ghana in December 2018.

Several metric tonnes of maize are going waste in Maame-Krobo in the
Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region due to inadequate
buyers.

Maame Krobo is known for the large production of maize, however, Maize
farmers in the farming community are struggling to get buyers for tonnes
of maize harvested this year.

According to the farmers, whereas government approved farm gate price
for a 50kg sack of maize is Ghc60, few traders who buy from them pay a
paltry Ghc90 for a large sack of maize which weighs about 130kg. In
spite of the variation in prices, the buyers are not forthcoming
creating anxiety among farmers.

“Ploughing an acre of land cost Gh140, planting of maize cost Ghc70,
spraying around Ghc80 for twice a before harvesting.Then cropping,
Ghc140, then the labourers so you will spend close to Ghc700 cedis per
acre of maize farm so it is expensive but the Price the buyers are given
us is not helpful” Godwin Mensah, a farmer lamented to Starr News
Eastern Regional Correspondent Kojo Ansah.

According to the farmers bad market price and inadequate buyers for
their produce is discouraging the youth adding that they are unable to
pay their creditors.

“The government says we the youth should go into agric yet we don’t have
good prices for our produce. After suffering to farm they come here to
cheat as but because we also need money to pay our creditors we sell it
cheaply even with that we are not getting buyers the maize are rotting.
Now we have erected cages that we are using as storage facilities but
these cages are not able store more maize”.

The farmers are appealing to government to come to their aid to buy the maize in the area.

“We want the government to come and buy the maize from us to the
warehouse because they are spoiling here. There are two warehouse in
Forifori and Maame Krobo junction but are not operational we don’t know
why”.

The farmers want the intervention of the National Food Buffer Stock
Company institution mandated to ensure the stability of food grain
supply and price which is of continuous concern to the government.

According to 2009 data by SRID, the total domestic production of maize
amounted to 1,619,600 MT with a demand of 1,197,000 MT, thus, showing a
surplus of 422,600 MT which needs to be stored which go waste.

NAFCO provide minimum guaranteed price and ready market, mop up excess
produce from all farmers in order to reduce post harvest losses
resulting from spoilage due to poor storage, thereby protecting farm
incomes but maize farmers in Maame Krobo are not benefiting from the
services of the company.

A former Member of Parliament for the area, Joseph Appiah, now the
Parliamentary candidate believe it is important to market produce in the
area to attract lore buyers.

“Our major problem in this area is high post harvest losses due to
multiple factors of bad roads and inadequate buyers so I believe we need
to fix these challenges, advertise to attract more buyers “.

Further delay in government interventions will worsen the situation at Maame Krobo as tonnes of Maize continue to go waste.

Former President and NDC Flagbearer John Dramani Mahama has been very
vociferous about how the Akufo-Addo administration has handled the
banking sector reforms but a Parliamentary record has exposed his
inconveniencies.

According to him, the current government should have concentrated on
injecting more cash into the struggling banks in order to keep them
afloat, instead of collapsing and consolidating them.

In his many declarations, Mr Mahama has postulated that the methodology
used to sanitize the banking sector leaves a lot to be desired and that
it has led to job losses of what he describes as innocent employees in
the banking sector.

This accusation of the supposed collapse of the banking sector by the
Akufo-Addo government is being heavily propagated by members of the
opposition party’s communicators.

Available documents, however, indicate that former President John
Mahama admitted to the very same banking sector he accuses Akufo-Addo
for supervising.

In the 2016 State of the Nation’s Address delivered in Parliament by
the former president, the NDC flagbearer made these admissions;

“Mr Speaker, over the past five years, there has been a proliferation
of microfinance companies. These companies come under the direct
supervision of the Bank of Ghana. Unfortunately, lack of effective
supervision has resulted in many cases in which microfinance companies
licensed by Bank of Ghana have breached the rules and created supposed
pyramid schemes that have eventually come crashing down”

The former President, by this statement in the 2016 version of the
State of the Nation’s Address, confessed to the banking sector crumbling
down under his tutelage.

This admission as captured in the former president’s own speech makes
nonsense of his accusation that the Presidency of Akufo-Addo is to blame
for the crisis we have witnessed in the banking sector.

Though he has chosen to be dishonest in his commentaries on the banking
sector reforms, his own words have come back to haunt him.

The Ambassador of Mexico to Ghana Her Excellency Maria de Los Angeles Arriola Aguirre, has called on the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority as part of her nation’s initiative to enhance economic relations with Ghana.

The Mexican ambassador, who was speaking to Management of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, stated that although her country has little presence in Africa, Mexico identifies Ghana as a strategic point of African development, hence chose to re-establish its embassy here.

She described her country’s reinvigorated relationship with Ghana as essential, because Ghana is playing a key role in the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area and would be key for Mexico to do business with Ghana.

“Today, Ghana will head the African Free Trade Area Secretariat. That means a lot. It means Ghana has gained reputation inside Africa and Ghana will be the Gateway for Mexico to come and do more business with Africa”, she stated.

She revealed that with political dialogues between Ghana and Mexico having taken place recently, Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has assured to reopen its embassy in Mexico to take advantage of Mexico’s interest in Ghana.

She said her country takes significant interest in the widening of the Ghana’s ports which would open up new opportunities for Ghana’s economic partners like Mexico. “We are interested in the opportunities for this Port which is widening to become the most important port in West Africa”, she added.

The Director General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Michael Luguje said, the Ports Authority is taking ambitious strides to provide the needed supply chain logistics to support Ghana’s current attractiveness to the trading world.

“All the ambitious projects that we have in place, including the port expansions in both Tema and Takoradi. We are even building a new port in Keta. All that is to make sure we are a step ahead of the demand of trade”, he revealed.

He said his outfit would seek to rally stakeholders to investigate possibilities of collaboration between Ghana’s ports and Mexico.

“Mexico is a significant economy in Latin America, and we certainly would be encouraging our trading community to find what the competitive advantages are in trade with Mexico”, he asserted.

Some members of Ghana’s trade industry, who were present at the meeting, expressed some enthusiasm, to see Ghana break boundaries in trade with other countries for economic development.

“We have always been looking for ways of registering our products outside the boundaries of Ghana. We want to go global, so when there is an opportunity like this, we take it”, Elvis Blankson, Marketing Manager of GIHOC Distilleries expressed.

The Normalisation Committee of the Ghana Football Association has
proposed a reduction of the number of delegates for Congress from 124 to
120.

This figure signifies an amendment from the earlier proposal of 98
which was met by a lot of objections by the clubs before today’s
meeting.

So the new proposal is 120. This is, however, awaiting approval or disapproval.

The proposal which is article 26 of the GFA revised Statutes, allocated
2 slots for each Premier League club, making it a total of 32 votes for
the top division clubs, 8 for elite Women’s League Competition, “5 of
which should be women” and 48 delegates restored for Division One League
Clubs.

The dream of 17-year-old Abdul Hamid Ibrahim to become a mining engineer
has come alive after Black Stars and Newcastle midfielder, Christian
Atsu paid his university admission fees.

Hamid, from the mining town of Obuasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana
had 7A’s in his West African Senior Secondary Certificate
Examination,WASSCE, but because his mother, Hajaratu Osman invested her
savings with one of Ghana’s ailing banks, there was no way the young man
could have achieved his dreams, as all efforts by the mother to
retrieve her money had proven futile.

After hearing of the CCF Educational Support Scholarship which has
Christian Atsu as a sponsor, Abdul Hamid and his mother rushed to Accra
to access the scholarship.

The young man was full of joy as he received the scholarship and money
to return to Obuasi to prepare for school. “I am highly grateful to
Christian Atsu for his support. Without him, I was going to stay at
home”, the teary young man told crimecheckghana

His mother was full of joy, “may God bless Christian Atsu and give him
more football playing years. He has brought hope to my son”

The CCF Educational Support Scholarship targets brilliant but needy
students in Ghana who cannot make it to the university because of
financial difficulties.